Legalizing weed in the EU will be complicated

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Malta has become the first country in the European Union to legalize recreational cannabis. Other EU countries like Germany and Luxembourg are likely to shortly follow suit. But as The World’s Europe correspondent Orla Barry reports, it’s a far cry from the liberal Canadian model.

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